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J.A P. HISLEY. Eames.

Patented Aug. 10,1889.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OEE-ICE.

JOHN P. HISLEY, OF SYRAOUSE, NEW YORK.

4HAME.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 230,939, dated August 10, 1880.

Application filed October 26, 1877.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, JOHN P. HISLEY, of the city of Syracuse, in the State of New York, haveinvented new and useful Improvements in Harness-Eames, of which the following, taken in connection with the accompanying drawings, is a full, clear, and exact description.

Thisinvention relates to harness-haines composed of cast metal; and it consists in certain peculiarities in its detail construction whereby its weight is reduced and at the same time its stability augmented, substantially as hereinafter fully described.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure l is a front view of my improved hame; Fig. 2, a rear view of saine; Fig. 3, an enlarged tra-nsverse section on line yy, Fig. 2; Fig. 4, an enlarged transverse section on line :r x, Fig. 2; Fig. 5, a view of the hame-strap loop detached. Fig. 6 shows the end of the hame as cast for attachingthe hame-strap loop by coldshutting or clinching around the bar thereof a prong cast onto the hame, and Fig. 7 a side view of ahame cast with an eye in its end to serve as a hame-strap loop.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts. l

A is the hame, of a form and dimensions in some respects similar to those hitherto made of wrought-iron.

The turret or rein-guide i" and tug-loopl may consist ot the same metal and cast with the hame in one piece, or they may be of different material and the hame cast onto the same.

In order to reduce the weight ot' the hame, and at the same time augment its rigidity without depriving it of the usual external form of metallic hames, and thus adapt it for the usual leather covering, I make the hame of a concavoconvex form in cross-section of its body by providing; it with a longitudinal concavity, c, on the under side. This concavity is partly filled, as shown at a a', to re-enforce the hame at the junction therewith of the turret and tug-loop and prevent undue shrinkage thereat during the cooling of the casting incident to said appendages cast thereon.

rlhe hame-strap loop s may either consist of an eye or aperture east in the end of the hame, as shown in Fig. 7 of the drawings, or constructed as shown in Fig. 5 of the dra-wings, and attached to the hame either by casting the end of the haine loosely around the bar 'v of the loop, or, when the hame is composed ot' malleable cast-iron, by coldshutting or clinchin g around the bar of said loop aprong, e, cast on the ends of the hame, as shown .iu Fig. 6 of the drawings.

That portion of the bar i: of the loop s which is embraced by the end of the y.hainelis contracted toward its center and provided with a shoulder, n, at each end to secure it in its proper relative position on the hame.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim is- The concave-convex hame A, re-enforced at the turret and tug-loop by llin gs a c of the eoncavity c, substantially as and for the purpose shown and described.

In testimony whercofl have signed my name and affixed my seal, in the presence of two at- 'testing witnesses, at Syracuse, State of New York, this 5th daypof September, 1877.

v JOHN P. HISLEY. [L. s]

Witnesses E. S. DAwsoN, 0. T. ROSE. 

